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...City of Cambridge received a nationally recognized award last week for its efforts to curb underage drinking. A nonprofit group known as the National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors (NASADAD) awarded its 2007 National Exemplary Award for Innovative Substance Abuse Programs to the city for a program that trains local alcohol servers and sellers to prevent underage drinking. The initiative, called “21 Proof,” is unique in “the collaboration between the licensees and the license commission,” according to Frank W. Connelly, trainer and community organizer...
...sword because professors may know a lot about gene expression but not a lot about manufacturing and marketing,” said study co-author Joel S. Weissman, an associate professor at HMS. “But a lot of people are starting to realize that the influence of drug companies in health care is pervasive and may be more than we want it to be.” According to Marjorie E. Powell, senior assistant general counsel for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, interactions between industry and academia have led to improved treatments for patients. Those discoveries...
...Things We Lost in the Fire is in some ways more novel, but in ways that undermine our interest. It seems that Brian, the murdered husband (David Duchovny), has a childhood friend, Jerry (Benicio Del Toro) that is everything he is not - a drug addict who has fallen to the most degrading level. Brian has stood by him through the years, doing what he can to keep him alive. His widow, Audrey (Halle Berry), invites Jerry to the funeral and then, unaccountably, invites him into her and her children's lives. She gives him a spare room and does...
...missing now, when Johnny comes in, is the buzz. Everyone still likes him, but being a drug rep and having a couple of big knee operations somehow cost Johnny much of his celebrity status. He's still big and no longer sporting a limp, but not even his big, fat football ring elicits comments from the other patients anymore. Johnny's always still talking, joking and nodding, though - and the other patients still like him. There is a gift, some kind of divine favor that fills the air around him and it's not the football. Charisma, star quality...
McCarthy and the Coen brothers have just collaborated on a movie version of McCarthy's novel No Country for Old Men, a thriller about a serial killer and a busted drug deal. It's a searing, shocking movie that plays like a eulogy for the great American West. It also features the best scene ever filmed of a dog chasing a guy in a river...